How US Marines Use Water For Urban Breaching? #shorts

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How US Marines Use Water For Urban Breaching?

The US Marines employ various techniques for urban breaching. This includes the use of explosives to quickly and forcefully enter buildings. However, there is a safer method. Marines can use water to push open doors instead of cutting through them. The 'water impulse charge' method consists of a few feet of det cord sandwiched between two 1000ml saline IV bags. Surprisingly, these bags are the same saline bags used in hospitals. The assembly is then secured with 100 mile per hour tape, which is the military-grade equivalent of ordinary duct tape. An adhesive is applied to one side for further reinforcement.
The saline bags convert the cutting action of the det cord into a pushing force, making it highly effective for door removal. Since there is a bag on both sides, it can be used at close range by the Marines. However, they still need to bring their ballistic breacher blanket—a protective shield that safeguards them from blast overpressure and fragmentation while remaining in close proximity to the breach site.

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The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces. The U.S. Marine Corps is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

The Marine Corps has been part of the U.S. Department of the Navy since 30 June 1834 with its sister service, the United States Navy. The USMC operates installations on land and aboard sea-going amphibious warfare ships around the world. Additionally, several of the Marines' tactical aviation squadrons, primarily Marine Fighter Attack squadrons, are also embedded in Navy carrier air wings and operate from the aircraft carriers.

The history of the Marine Corps began when two battalions of Continental Marines were formed on 10 November 1775 in Philadelphia as a service branch of infantry troops capable of fighting both at sea and on shore. In the Pacific theater of World War II, the Corps took the lead in a massive campaign of amphibious warfare, advancing from island to island. As of 2022, the USMC has around 177,200 active duty members and some 32,400 personnel in reserve.

Door breaching
Door breaching is a process used by military, police, or emergency services to force open closed or locked doors. A wide range of methods are available depending on the door's opening direction (inward or outward), construction materials, etc., and one or more of these methods may be used in any given situation. In the United States, residential doors typically open inward while commercial building doors usually open outward. Some breaching methods require specialized equipment and can be categorized as one of the following: mechanical breaching, ballistic breaching, hydraulic breaching, explosive breaching, or thermal breaching.

Explosive

Idaho National Guard combat engineers practice explosive breaching. Explosive breach charges have been placed on the adjacent door's hinges.

Explosive breaching usually breaches doors via one of several mechanisms: pushing the door inward (e.g. water charge), cutting through the door's material (e.g. linear shaped charge), defeating the lock or hinge, or general blast effects (i.e. explosives in contact with door). The explosive breaching charges used can range from highly focused methods, such as detcord, plastic explosives, or strip shaped charges that explosively cut through doors or latches, to large satchel charges, containing 20 pounds (9.1 kg) of C-4, that can breach even reinforced concrete bunkers.

A breach charge is an explosive device used by military, police, or emergency services to force open closed and/or locked doors. A wide range of breaching methods may be used in any given situation, but explosive breaching can be the fastest method, though it is also the most dangerous, to both the breachers and the room occupants. Depending on the situation, explosive breaching is potentially slower than a ballistic breach due to the large standoff required when using explosives, if there is no cover available. Breaching can be performed with a specially formed breaching charge placed in contact with the door, or with various standoff breaching devices.

Explosive breaching charges can range from highly focused methods, such as detcord, plastic explosives, or strip shaped charges that explosively cut through doors or latches, to large satchel charges that can breach even reinforced concrete bunkers.

The breach charge is considered a gadget in the Rainbow Six universe.